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André Carlos Ponce de Leon Ferreira de Carvalho

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Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Instituto de Ciências Matemáticas e de Computação (ICMC)  (Institutional affiliation from the last research proposal)
Birthplace: Brazil

He holds a Bachelor's degree (1987) and a Master's degree in Computer Science (1990) from the Federal University of Pernambuco, and a PhD in Electronic Engineering from the University of Kent (1994). Full Professor, since 2006, and current Director, since 2022, of the Institute of Mathematical and Computing Sciences of the University of São Paulo (ICMC-USP), in São Carlos, Full Member of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences (ABC), Research Productivity Scholarship 1A from CNPq and Deputy Director of the Center for Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning (CIAAM) at USP. He is currently a Member of the Steering Committee for Latin America and the Caribbean of the International Network for Government Science Advice (INGSA), of the UK Expert Advisory Panel of State of Science Report for the risks associated with frontier AI, of the HealthAI Community of Practices, of the University Council of the University of São Paulo, of the Scientific Committee of the Advanced Institute for Artificial Intelligence (AI2), of the Strategy and Partnerships Board of the UKRI Center for Doctoral Training in Accountable, Responsible and Transparent AI (ART-AI), at University of Bath, UK , Associate of the Artificial Intelligence Institute - Te Ipu o te Mahara of the University of Waikato, New Zealand, the USP Budget and Heritage Commission 2024-2026, the Technological Council of the Chronos Heritage Fund Management Association (CHRONOS) and the Governance Committee Geographical Indications (GI) São Carlos and the Science for Education Network (CpE). Coordinates the IARA network, Artificial Intelligence Recreating Environments. Member of the CNPq Computer Science Advisory Committee (CA-CC), 2018-2021 (coordinator from 2019 to 2020) and 2024-2027. Coordinates the WG12.2 Working Group on Machine Learning and Data Mining of the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP). Member of the Steering Committee of the Artificial Intelligence for Global Health (AI4GH) Project, IDRC, Canada. He was Vice-President of the Brazilian Computing Society (SBC), from 2019 to 2023. From 2013 to 2017 he was a member of the board of the International Association for Statistical Computing (IASC), of the International Institute of Statistics (ISI). He has published several articles in these areas, some of them winning awards at conferences organized by ACM, IEEE and SBC. He has written several books, including Artificial Intelligence: A Machine Learning approach, published by GrupoGen in 2011 and awarded the Jabuti 2012 award, and A General Introduction to Data Analytics, published by Wiley, in 2018. He was an Associate Professor at the University of Guelph, Canada . He was also a Visiting Professor at the University of Kent and a Visiting Researcher at the University of Kent and the Alan Turing Institute, UK. Evaluates projects for national research funding agencies: CAPES, CNPq, FAPERJ, FAPESP, FACEPE, FAPEMIG, FINEP and Fundação Serrapilheira, and international: Comisión Nacional de Investigación Científica y Tecnológica, CONICYT (Chile), Croatian Science Foundation, HRZZ (Croatia ), Czech Science Foundation, GACR (Czech Republic), Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, EPSRC (Kingdom United), Israel Science Foundation, ISF (Israel), Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada, Leverhulme Trust (United Kingdom), Ministero dell'Istruzione, dell'Università e della Ricerca, MIUR (Italy) and Swiss National Science Foundation, SNSF (Switzerland). He was a member of the Governance Group of the Brazilian Artificial Intelligence Strategy (EBIA) of MCTI, of the Scientific Technical Council of the School of Applied Mathematics of Fundação Getúlio Vargas (EMAp-FGV) from 2018 to 2020 and a Member of the Advisory Council of the MCTI Network- EMBRAPII for Innovation in Artificial Intelligence. (Source: Lattes Curriculum)

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